Joanne Price of Starpointe Studio will guide visitors through a FREE event – the creation of your own BUTTERFLY book!

Did you know that the Viceroy is Kentucky’s state butterfly? Viceroy’s are called mimics because they copy the appearance of a Monarch butterfly to scare away predators (the Monarch does not taste good).

The butterfly book covers are original prints designed, hand-printed and cut by Joanne Price. Customize your very own butterfly book to record stories or drawings or leave it as a fun paper sculpture that can flutter in the wind!

The photographically created printing plates are seen on the printing press – butterfly books by the hundreds!

These girls decorated their butterfly books and wrote stories about Paris and ice cream!

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BUGFEST is Saturday September 16, 9am–4pm

Beneficial Insects: A Work in Progress by Joanne Price Exhibit in Bernheim’s Visitor’s Center September 8th–October 31, 2017. Bernheim is open everyday 7am–8pm. FREE admission to all Monday–Friday
Only $5.00 per car, minivan or motorcycle, $10.00 per van, RV on Saturdays, Sundays and Holidays

The Beneficial Insects artist’s book project was conceived of and started in 2014 with Bernheim Arboretum and Research Forest’s “Local Use for Local Artists” (now called Regional Artist Program) support and continued with an Artist-In-Residence opportunity at the Minnesota Center for Book Arts (Minneapolis, Minnesota) from July 27 through August 9, 2015. Then, in January 2017, I received a Kentucky Foundation for Women’s Artist Enrichment grant that boosted the Beneficial Insects project with financial support.

This project is very slow and time consuming because of the process necessary to create the illustrations. Each illustration is hand drawn and then transferred to a printing block. Then the image must be engraved/carved so that it stands in relief. The first of the print matrices to be created is called a “key block”. The key block is then transferred to 3-4 separate blocks and each is engraved/carved based on the color that will be printed from it. Then each block is printed together—one on top of the other—to create the final image. After several color trial proofs, the image is hand-printed, one color at a time, one piece of paper at a time. Each image has taken an average of 4 months to complete.

The page sizes are 6 inches high by 7 inches wide, and 36 pages with 10 multi-color relief engravings. There will be a limited edition of 30 letterpress books and a possibility of a commercially printed version. Joanne Price is the author, artist, printer and binder for this exciting project.

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Stop by the activities area at KY Crafted: The Market this weekend April 22 & 23! We will be making Butterfly Books – the Viceroy, Kentucky’s state butterfly! The butterfly covers are original prints designed, handprinted and cut by Joanne Price. Another pollinator for the Market and a delightful book to record stories or drawings or leave it as a fun paper sculpture that can flutter in the wind.

KY Crafted: The Market
Lexington Convention Center
430 W. Vine St.
Lexington, KY

The activity area, where I’ll be set up with the butterfly books, will be in full swing:
Saturday April 22, 10–6
Sunday April 23, 11–4

I hope to see you there!

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